Wire-conductor for houses



J. F. MARTIN. Wire-Conductor for Houses.

No. 225,844. Patented Mar. 23, 1880.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN F. MARTIN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

WIRE-CONDUCTOR FOR HOUSES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 225,844, dated March 23, 1880.

Application filed December 17, 1879.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JonN F. MARTIN, of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Wire-Conductors for Houses and other Buildings; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, forming part of this specification.

The nature of my invention consists in the construction of means for carrying bell and other wires through houses, will be hereinafter more fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe its construction and operation, referring to the annexed drawings, in which the different figures fully illustrate my invention.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my invention, with corner roller held in place by flanged plates. Fig. 2 is a similar view, showing the corner roller held in place by a single flanged plate. Fig. 3 is an inside view of the flanged plate and roller. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a modification of my invention. Fig. 5 shows the molding prepared to receive the plate F.

Within the room I place moldings or strips O O, which are on the back provided with a series of longitudinal grooves, .00 00, forming separate channels for the wires to pass through. At the corners these moldings or strips are cut out, as shown at 71/, to receive a vertical round piece, D, having a series of grooves, i 6, formed therein, either wholly or partially around the circumference, to conduct the wires around the corner from one molding to the other.

The grooved piece D may be in the form of a roller, and may be held between two L- shaped metal guides, E E, inserted in grooves in the two moldings, as shown in Fig. 3; or it may be held in a cap or angle piece, F, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, also inserted in grooves in the moldings. In the walls, at the corner of the room, are to he made recesses for the guides E or angle-piece F and the piece or roller D to fit in.

In Fig. 4 I have shown the two strips or moldings at the corner connected by a metallic casting or angle-iron, G, fitting on the outer or front sides of the moldings, and provided with a corner post, I, having grooves i, corresponding with the grooves 00 on the moldings.

Heretofore, in running bell and other wires through a house, the wires have generally been embedded in the walls and run between floor and ceiling, which is considerable trouble, and when the wires have to be insulated rats and mice often eat the insulating material, and considerable trouble is experienced in locating any break or injury in the wires.

With my invention these difficulties are entirely obviated. The wires can be run through the rooms without any difficulty, and the moldings add to the appearance of the room.

I am aware that electric wires have been carried through tubes and supported therein so as to insulate them; also that cornices have been formed hollow to conceal a water-spraying pipe. In my invention each wire has a distinct and separate channel in the strip or molding, so that they cannot come in contact with each other, even if any one or more of them should become slack, and the location of each wire in a small independent groove prevents any injury thereof by mice or the like.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. As a means for carrying bell and other wires through a house, a series of strips or moldings provided on the back with a series of longitudinal grooves, in which the wires are separately located, substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.

2. The combination of strips or moldings having longitudinal grooves on the back, and correspondingly-grooved corner pieces or rollers held to the moldings by angular metallic pieces, substantially as herein set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 5th day of December, 1879.

JOHN F. MARTIN.

\Vitnesses H. AUBREY TOULMIN, J. J. MCCARTHY. 

